Ticket or tag hook.



F. S. WEBSTER.

TICKET 0R TAG HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 9, 1909.

972,043. Patented 0ct.4, 1910.

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FRANK SAMSON WEBSTER, 0F LEXINGTON, NEBRASKA.

TICKET OR TAG HOOK.

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Application filed November 9, 1909.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK SAMSON VVEB- sTER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Lexington, in the county of Dawson and Stateof Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticketor Tag Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement in tag fasteners in the nature of aticket or tag hook, and the invention consists in certain novelconstructions and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the drawing Figure 1 is an elevation. Fig. .2 is a side view of thehook, the ticket being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ofthe hook. Fig. 4 is a detail elevation of the blank from which the hooksection is formed and Fig. 5 is a similar View of the blank forming thetongue section.

As shown, the hook section A is bent at one end forming the hook properA and has its other end formed to provide a broad base at A which has alarge central opening A which is entered, from its lower edge by a smallspur or lug A which is deflected slightly to the front or to the sameside of the hook section as the hook A and is adapted to enter anopening B in the ticket B and aid in looking the hook to the ticket inthe use of the invention as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing.

The tongue section C has an outer or frame portion C and an inner orconnecting portion C separated throughout its major portion from theframe C by a slit C and connected at its base at C with the frame C andthe frame portion is bent forwardly at its point C to abut the hook Aand form the tongue of the fastener while the point or free end C of theinner portion or plate C of the tongue section is secured at C to thebody of the tongue section, preferably by means of a rivet as shown inthe drawings. At its lower end the tongue section is slightly out-turnedat C and the hook section is also out-turned to facilitate inserting aticket as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and the ticket when so inserted, beingprovided with an opening B may be pressed to the position shown in Fig.2 in which the inner plate C of the tongue section will press the ticketfirmly against the base portion of the hook section A and the spur Awill enter the opening B in the ticket and secure the fastener inconnection therewith.

The invention will be found useful whereever it is desired to attachhooks to tickets for convenient connection with articles and thefastener is especially designed for jewelers use in attaching tags onrepair and display work avoiding the use of string and similarfastenings.

In the specific construction shown, it will be noticed that the hooksection has its base portion provided with a central opening and with aspur entering the same from the lower end thereof to engage with theticket and the tongue section is so formed as to secure the ticket ininterlocked connection with the said spur when the parts are applied asshown in Figs. 1 and 2, the tongue of said section being deflectedforwardly to cooperate with the hook of the hook section. At the sametime the tongue and hook sections, when united in the manner described,form a fastener which is compact, has a neat appearance and in which thetongue of the hook can be conveniently opened by the pressure of thethumb or finger.

In releasing the fastener from the ticket or tag B, the tag may begrasped in' one hand and the fastener in the other and the said fastenerbe tilted at the upper end to the right from the position shown in Fig.2, which will spring the spur out of the opening B and permit theconvenient detachment of the parts. In order to secure this result, itwill be noticed that I form the fastener with the hook section and thetongue section united at a point about midway between the ends of thefastener with the lower ends of the hook section and of the tonguesection detached so they may be sprung apart.

I claim:

1. The fastener herein described composed of a hook section having ahook proper at one end and having a broad base at its other end, saidbroad base being pro vided with a central opening and with a spurentering the same from its lower side and deflected forwardly to thesame side of the hook section as the hook proper, a tongue sectionformed from a plate of metal and having an outer or frame portion and aninner portion or plate united at its lower edge with the frame portionand free at its upper edge or point and the point of the frame sectionbeing deflected forwardly to operate as a tongue in connection with thehook proper and means securing the upper end or point of the inner orplate portion of the tongue section to the hook section at a pointbetween the upper and lower ends of the hook section, the lower ends ofthe hook and tongue sections being detached and adapted to be sprungapart, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A fastener comprising a hook section having a hook proper at one endand having at its other end a projecting spur deflected to the same sideof the sect-ion as the hook proper and a tongue section secured to thehook section at a point approximately midway between the ends of thehook section and arranged at its free end opposite the spur of the hooksection, said end of the tongue section being separated from thecorresponding endof the hook section whereby the sections may be sprungapart at such end, substantially as set forth.

3. A fastener comprising a hook section and a tongue section secured atone end to the hook section at a point approximately mid-way between theends of the latter, the said tongue section having a tongue cooperatingwith the hook proper and the free end of said tongue section beingseparated from the corresponding end of the hook section and adapted forcooperation therewith, substantially as set forth.

4. A fastener consisting of two separate sections secured together, thesaid fastener having at one end plates spaced apart to receive betweenthem a ticket and having at its other end a hook formed on one of thesections and a tongue carried by the other section for cooperation withsaid hook, one of the end plates for the reception of a ticket beingformed on the hook section, and the other end plate being formed 011 theother section, substantially as set forth.

5. A fastener composed of a hook section having a hook proper at oneend, a tongue section secured at its upper end to the hook section andhaving at its lower end a separated portion projecting upwardly anddeflected to cooperate as a tongue with the hook proper of the hooksection, the free end of the tongue section and the corresponding end ofthe hook section being separated and adapted for cooperationsubstantially as set forth.

FRANK SAMSON VEBSTER.

WVitnesses V. J. ORGAN, JACOB GEIS.

